Sleeve hair curler



June 6, 1939. N. LOCKE SLEEVE HAIR CURLER Filed Oct. 3, 1958 INVENTOR, Nettie Locke. BYQQA/id 8.

ATTORNEY.

Patented June 6, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIE 1 Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in sleeve hair curlers and has for an object to provide a hair curler used without artificial heat which will shape a lock of hair into a curl beginning at the ends of the hairs thereof. 7

Another object of my invention is to provide a hair curler which protects the lock of hair being curled from disarrangement during the wrapping process.

Another object of my invention is to provide a hair curler requiring less skill to use than ordinary hair curlers.

Other objects. of my invention will appear as the description proceeds.

I attain these and other objects of my invention with the device illustrated in the sheet of accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my sleeve hair curler showing in dotted outlines a comb extended through the sleeve, Fig. 2 is a top plan view of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a front planview of the sleeve segregated, Fig. 4 is an edge view of Fig. 3, Fig. 5 is a front elevation of a lock of hair wrapped and clamped in sleeve hair curler, and Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the lower end of an optional form of my sleeve hair curler having the upper end thereof broken away.

Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several views. Certain parts are broken away for lack of space or to show other parts hidden thereby.

With more particular reference to designated parts: A cloth sleeve, preferably made from permanent-finish organdy, 6 is composed of the rear side 6 having the lower end extension flap 6 and the front side 6 On the upper end of the front side is the hem l1 and on the upper end of the rear side is the hem l8 opposite each other at IS. The said front side is shorter than is the rear side and its lower end I6 is finished with the hem l9 providing the lower end I6 of the sleeve 6. The two sides are stitched together with the edge seams 'l and 8. The flap 6 on the lower end of the sleeve 6 has the transverse rearwardly disposed fold 20 stitched together and showing as a seam at 2!! in Fig. 3.

The roller 9 is a small copper wire, by preference, covered first by a coating of rubber over which is braided a covering of rayon. This is a well-known, electric insulated, single conductor, electric wire.

The roller 9 is placed on top of the flap 6, as this flap is disposed in Fig. 3, at its outer end and rolled upward with the flap till the fold 20 is disposed flatwise on the flap and stitched at 20* close to the flap-covered roller, thus fastening the roller to the flap adjacent the lower end l6 of the sleeve 6 and completing the construction of my preferred form of sleeve hair curler.

In Fig. 2 the upper end of the sleeve 6 is shown opened about as it appears when the comb I0 is extended through it, as shown in Fig. l, or as when occupied by a lock of hair.

In operation: A small comb Ill is extended through the sleeve, as shown in dotted outlines in Fig. 1, and the moistened lock of hair to be curled is engaged in the protruding upper end of the comb which then is withdrawn through and from the sleeve, taking the hair with it, and leaving the upper end of the sleeve close to the head beneath the hair. After the upper end of thecomb is outside of the sleeve the lock of hair is disengaged from it and the sleeve moved downward till the ends of the hair are entirely within the lower end of the sleeve. Then the roller 9 is revolved and the sleeve and enclosed lock of hair are rolled up around it tightly till the entire length of the sleeve is wound around the roller, as shown at 6 6 in Fig. 5 where the lock of hair H is shown as broken away from the head of the person whose hair is being curled. While the sleeve and hair are thus tightly wound on the roller the ends of the roller 9 are bent over toward each other to lie closely against the rolled sleeve as shown at 9', 9' in Fig. 5, thus clamping the rolled sleeve and hair in a tightly wound roll till it dries. When it is desired to remove the curled lock of hair from the curler the roller ends are straightened'from their positions at 9, 9' and the sleeve is unrolled and removed from the lock of hair which may be found to be curled to the very tip ends of the hair because they also were within the sleeve when wound around the roller.

In the optional form of my sleeve hair curler shown in Fig. 6 the sleeve I2 consists of the front side l2 and the rear side l2 having the flap l2. The hemmed lower end of the side l2 is shown at 2|. The flap I2 is wrapped around the roller [3 which then has its ends bent over as shown at l3 and l3 to lie along side of the wrapped flap. The thin sheet of ductile metal I4 is shaped into a collar closely around the sleeve-wrapped part of the roller and the bent-over roller ends and closely pressed in place over the same. Then the optional form of sleeve is ready for use in curling hair as above described with respect to the preferred form.

Having thus disclosed my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- A device of the kind described including, a fabric sleeve, a longitudinal flap extension of one end of said sleeve on one side thereof, and a fiexible roller longer than the width of said sleeve fastened to said flap transversely thereof adjacent said one end of said sleeve.

NETTIE LOCKE. 

